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TOP 100 of the Most Frequently Used English Words

Studying English, we often exclaim: "I want to expand my vocabulary!" A familiar phrase? Maybe even a familiar goal?

I wonder what is the cherished figure for everyone: 100, 1,000, or 10,000 words? After acquaintance with entertaining arithmetic given in the article, you will be convinced that knowing even 10 of them is already a good platform for language practice. Do not believe me? Read on.

What are the most commonly spoken English words? People contributed to the Oxford English Dictionary a huge list of all the words implemented, which they called the Oxford English Corpus. The work was done in order to find out which of them are the most popular.

What was discovered can surprise you. Instead of considering each individual conceptual unit of language, a bid was made to find "basic units", called lemmas (lemma – abstract, theme, gloss). For example, climbing, climbed, and climbs are variations of climb. When one of these variants was found, it was recorded only as another form of climb.

As a result of the research, it was found that 10 frequently implemented English words make up 25% of the number of all of them that we use! These are functional units, such as like, the, of, be, and to. That is, if you take any text from 100 conceptual units of languages, about 25 of them will be from the list of TOP-10.

We continue to wonder: The 100 most commonly used words in English actually make up 50% of all of them that we speak every day. 1,000 words is already 75% of our vocabulary, for example, girl, win, decide, or huge. And with 7,000 units you will cover 90% of all the words that will help you in life.

The rest of the words is implemented either once in life or in the case of professional necessity.

The results of the research cannot but imbue with optimism because you will need much less work than it seems to study all popular English words, after all! If you learn 100 the most frequent words, as well as various options for using them, you can make basic sentences (minus one or two words). Of course, the most complicated part is to learn all the meanings of these words. But this is not from science fiction, the main thing is to begin!

The 100 most common English words found in written form around the world will help you at any time not to get lost and share your thoughts or desires with the world. So what if words are also money. Then, we wish you to know them as many as possible, including, the happiness to be heard and understood.

1. the

26. they

51. when

76. come

2. be

27. we

52. make

77. its

3. to

28. say

53. can

78. over

4. of

29. her

54. like

79. think

5. and

30. she

55. time

80. also

6. a

31. or

56. no

81. back

7. in

32. an

57. just

82. after

8. that

33. will

58. him

83. use

9. have

34. my

59. know

84. two

10. I

35. one

60. take

85. how

11. it

36. all

61. people

86. our

12. for

37. would

62. into

87. work

13. not

38. there

63. year

88. first

14. on

39. their

64. you

89. well

15. with

40. what

65. good

90. way

16. he

41. so

66. some

91. even

17. as

42. up

67. could

92. new

18. you

43. out

68. them

93. want

19. do

44. if

69. see

94. because

20. at

45. about

70. other

95. any

21. this

46. who

71. than

96. these

22. but

47. get

72. than

97. give

23. his

48. which

73. now

98. day

24. by

49. go

74. look

99. most

25. from

50. me

75. only

100. us

P.S.: But that is not all we wanted to tell. Compilers of the Oxford Corpus did a great work identifying the most used words. But in fact, a hundred of the most commonly used of them is implemented mainly with other words, which carry the main semantic load. In the Top 100, as you managed to notice, there were a lot of prepositions, pronouns, particles, and adverbs. They are essential; without their help, you can hardly ask the question "How can I get to the library?"

Therefore, we share one more table containing 25 most popular nouns, verbs, and prepositions.

Nouns

Verbs

Adjectives

1. time

1. be

1. good

2. person

2. have

2. new

3. year

3. do

3. first

4. way

4. say

4. last

5. day

5. get

5. long

6. thing

6. make

6. great

7. man

7. go

7. little

8. world

8. know

8. own

9. life

9. take

9. other

10. hand

10. see

10. old

11. part

11. come

11. right

12. child

12. think

12. big

13. eye

13. look

13. high

14. woman

14. want

14. different

15. place

15. give

15. small

16. work

16. use

16. large

17. week

17. find

17. next

18. case

18. tell

18. early

19. point

19. ask

19. young

20. government

20. work

20. important

21. company

21. seem

21. few

22. number

22. feel

22. public

23. group

23. try

23. bad

24. problem

24. leave

24. same

25. fact

25. call

25. able

You can add little imagination and combine words from different columns into sentences. For example, take the noun "government" from the first column, the verb "work" from the second in Present Simple, and the adjective "great," and get a fantastic exclamation. The government works great! And this is not a pre-election campaign.

To make sure that the knowledge of above-mentioned popular 75 words is a very useful burden that, in fact, does not burden you, you can try to experiment with other words and get something like Woman thinks different or Problem seems small.